Support for autodiscovery by all search engines
Site map is a very essential for Search engine optimization since it get the site indexed fast. Recently Major search engine Google, Microsoft and Yahoo agreed on a standard sitemap protocol. Now every webmaster can add sitemap autodiscovery links in the Robots.txt file. The best advantage of the new open format autodiscovery is it allows the webmaster to give the exact location of their websites sitemap inside the robots.txt file which removes the hassle of submitting sitemaps to each search engines one by one.
This helps webmaster submit their content to search engines also at the same time avoid the unwanted traffic which comes from crawlers and eat up the bandwidth. The search engines will be informed by its crawlers about the recent update of the web pages and the web users get the latest fresh content while they surf.
Robots.txt file is an vital part of SEO but most of the webmasters fail to have a robot.txt file on their website which allows the search engine spiders informed that which part of the website needs to be indexed and which one not. So with the open format autodiscovery this is made easy with just one line of code search engines can find you sitemap file.
TJ
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